AIKS Condemns the Brutal Attack on Com. Tarun Roy and Over 40 AIKS Activists by TMC Goons in Bengal

18th October, 2014

The Paschim Banga Krishak Sabha is conducting an intense Jatha campaign from 15th October onwards till 19th October, 2014 in Bengal and reaching out to the peasantry spread across over 38000 villages with a 10-Point Demand Charter as well as mobilising the peasantry in protest against the anti-peasant policies of the BJP-led Central Government and the TMC-led State Government.

The campaign and protest Jatha in each District is being led by the Kisan Sabha leadership. In East Midnapore District senior leader Com.Tarun Roy, State Joint Secretary and Central Kisan Committee member was leading the Jatha comprising over 200 Kisan volunteers in the Potashpur Police Station Limits. On 18th October when the Jatha reached Selmabajpur Village under Gopalpur Panchayat the Jatha members were brutally attacked by Trinamool goons armed with lethal weapons. Over 40 Kisan volunteers were injured in the attack. Com.Tarun Roy was seriously injured in the attack and had to be shifted to a hospital in Kolkata.

All India Kisan Sabha condemns this heinous attack and warns the TMC Government that rather than being cowed down by such cowardly attacks every such attack would be met with politically and with far greater numbers. AIKS calls upon all democratic forces to unite against the attacks on democracy being unleashed by the TMC goons with full backing of the Government and rally to protect the hard-won rights of the peasantry.

Sd/- Amra Ram, President

Hannan Mollah, General Secretary